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Description: 23rd December the birthday of former Prime Minister, Late Choudhary Charan Singh is observed as the Kisan Divas in India. On this day many organisations conduct seminars to discuss about farmers rights, agricultural practices, policies, guidelines and their implementation and so on. This aligns with the Sustainable Development Goal 2 which aims at Zero Hunger: to end all forms of hunger and ...read more

A Farm Ground for the Groundnut Farmers July 16, 2013, 8 a.m.

Summary: Developing commodity cooperatives requires large-scale database management and analysis for which MIS has proved to be an appropriate tool.

Description: Sustainable Agriculture, as we all know goes hand in hand with nature, along with its available resources and human habitation, which depends on it for the day-to-day living. But what happens when nature is not so generous and creates obstacles where one struggles very hard to produce a crop out of dry hard soil... that is when sustainability becomes equivalent to survival. I have seen this struggle as well as the spirit to move on, in Anantapur. I ...read more

Description: Optimum and proper utilisation of available natural resources without causing any adverse effect on nature, is one of the major premises for Sustainable Agriculture Projects. Shirpur Model is a good example of addressing irrigation - the most important factor in crop cultivation. Utilising the existing source of water, be it a canal, river or natural catchment area was the idea of this model. Dilasa in Maharashtra - Yavatmal district has taken it one step further and introduced Diversification-based Irrigation ...read more